Revealed: New Shocking Details About Executions By Islamic State

Islamic State last week released a new propaganda video called “The Blood Of Jihad.” The video shows the brainwashing and brutal training of IS recruits. The video also called upon IS followers to attack ‘infidel nations’ such as the United States and Australia.

The release of the video came after the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights – which is monitoring the situation in Syria and Iraq – published new data on the number of people executed by the Islamic State over the last six months. The London-based organization said that 1,878 people were executed–among them at least 1,175 civilians.

Rami Abdulrahman, the head of the monitoring group, said that among those executed were children and women. The number of executed people is probably an underestimation. The Syrian Observatory wrote on its website that the number of people killed by IS is higher than the number documented.

Islamic State has also executed 116 of its fighters since November. These IS members were foreigners who decided to return home.

The group, furthermore, beheaded two U.S. journalists and one American aid worker in an attempt to intimidate the U.S.-led coalition that embarked on an air campaign against the Islamic State.

The Wall Street Journal this weekend published a shocking article about Islamic State child soldiers who received training in beheading. Among those receiving this training was an eight-year-old boy.

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WSJ interviewed a 17-year old Syrian child soldier who described how Syrian soldiers were brought to the training in beheading and were forced to their knees. He then described how the soldiers were beheaded and said that it was like “learning to chop an onion.”

In related news, an Islamic State sniper gunned down General Hamid Taqavi, the local commander of Iran’s Al Quds Force in Iraq, on Sunday. The Iranian general served in Iraq as an adviser to the Iraqi army and local Shiite militias in their battle against the advancing troops of the Islamic State.